A View to a Kill

MGM/UA Entertainment Company | Release Date: May 24, 1985

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VidyaBumOct 21, 2021

I watched all 25 from Dr.No to Spectre (including Never say Never again), I feel this is the third worst movie in the franchise.

A View to a Kill is very simply the opposite of the 2nd worst, Live and Let Die. In LaLD, Moore was in hisI watched all 25 from Dr.No to Spectre (including Never say Never again), I feel this is the third worst movie in the franchise.

A View to a Kill is very simply the opposite of the 2nd worst, Live and Let Die.

In LaLD, Moore was in his first outing and not into the role. In here, he's in his last and very, very much beyond done with the role.

The man that used to play a prancing aristocrat enjoying socialising is now a quite too old man playing a playboy murderer.

Besides Moore himself being quite simply 58, and no amount of makeup was going to help with that, the movie is, in the image of Moore's films by that point, extremely overdone to death. The humour, the dialogues, the interactions, the plot, the everything, it is so "Moore's Bond era" but so dried up and tired, it is not even worth watching.

There is only one scene I truly remember from A View to a Kill, and it is a sort of spoof of Goldfinger. It's essentially the same scene as a famous one from Goldfinger, but done worse. The logic is worse, the directing is worse, the tension is worse, everything is worse. Like 20 years of Bond movies had passed on the scene and just slowly wrinkled it to petrification.

Moore admitted that by the end, he was too old for the role, and indeed, this movie may be the one that shows his age, and the series age and repetition, more than any.

There is little to say about the plot, characters or villain: none of them are good, and this movie, just like Live and Let Die, is skippable without a thing lost.… Expand

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amheretojudgeMay 9, 2019

Moore is the one with the most Bond films in his collection and he stole the worst ones too, that seems a bit selfish.

A View To A Kill Glen is shooting all over the places. He is on a strike. He keeps breaking record and this time he hasMoore is the one with the most Bond films in his collection and he stole the worst ones too, that seems a bit selfish.

A View To A Kill

Glen is shooting all over the places. He is on a strike. He keeps breaking record and this time he has managed to pull out the worst chapter in this franchise. And he doesn't hold back to make sure it stays that way. It is almost admirable that John Glen, the director, has decided to go with an avant-garde structure. Don't get too excited, it is worse than your typical one. What has been so dull about the franchise is how linear and dogmatic the track and views are, but also in layman terms, it has meant that people would be engaged into the storytelling against all odds.

At least, it would be entertaining, is what box office has whispered over the years. But now with no zip and flow in the narration, the old method that was shucked out with such arrogance is regretted painfully by the makers. For often or not, familiarity makes things easy to adapt, easy to criticize too, but at least they will accept it and won't ignore it. Also, since we are down this lane, the ridiculous set pieces that the entire film is brimmed of, is obviously advised to ignore before the film even starts like some cautionary certificate.

But you know what, I'd happily gulp down the ludicracy but what aches you to see is then later on they want you at the edge of your seat when the pin down a stunt or antic following some bizarre logistics; that entire sequence not only annoys you but enrages you. As the poster suggests, Roger Moore has got his match, not that the bar was high enough but I would still request you to not raise your expectations, for this view is new in the town and not in a good way, ironically it was supposed to be groundbreaking with higher stakes especially with A View To A Kill.… Expand

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Gamepro3093Aug 19, 2020

Roger Moore you dirty old man! You couldn’t tell Tanya Roberts was in her 20s?

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